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That goes in the 'what to give the weird uncle (or aunt) who has everything' list and reminds me of a story when my younger son was 3-4 years old.

Such a kid he was. I wish I had known how great a kid he was when he was 3-4 years old. We left the windows open during his routine violin practice and found that the neighbors liked to walk their dogs around our street at that time as well, even the melodious hounds.

We were studying about dinosaurs, and I owe my knowledge of these ancient creatures all to him. We did not finish that study until we moved to beetles.

The learning style at our home was 'immersion'; checked out every book in the public library (he was learning to read, then, so obtained the books in the words he could use phonetics to satisfy his curiosity), bought the biggest magnifying glass we could find, overturned rocks and studied soil, watched videos, made models, visited the local university entymology department, made edible beetles, (but, no dissection), studied beetle chemistry, wrote ditties, etc.

Where we had tiny model brachiosauri, now there were plastic beetles all over the house. An uninvited 'visitor' looking in the window happened to remark to another person in the neighborhood about the bugs in our window wells and on the windowsills and was promptly rebuffed, "don't bother those people, if there are bugs in their window, they're there for a reason."

Welcome to my whining!

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